books by John M. Lipski

books by John M. Lipski

books:

John M. Lipski

A History of Afro-Hispanic Language: Five Centuries, Five Continents
John M. Lipski

Cambridge University Press, 2005

The African slave trade brought African languages into contact with Spanish and Portuguese beginning in the fifteenth century, and resulted in the Africans' gradual acquisition of these languages. John Lipski describes the major forms of Afro-Hispanic language found in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America over the last 500 years. Separating ...

Varieties of Spanish in the United States (Georgetown Studies in Spanish Linguistics)
John M. Lipski

Georgetown University Press, 2008

Thirty-three million people in the United States speak some variety of Spanish, making it the second most used language in the country. Some of these people are recent immigrants from many different countries who have brought with them the linguistic traits of their homelands, while others come from families who have lived in this country for ...

El espanol de America (LINGUISTICA) (Linguistica / Linguistics) (Spanish Edition)
John M. Lipski

Catedra, 2006

En este libro se describe la inmensa riqueza de la variedad de "lenguas españolas" que se hablan desde la frontera de EE.UU. - Canadá hasta la Antártida.

Spanish in the United States: Linguistic Contact and Diversity (Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)

Mouton De Gruyter, 1993

This collection of original papers presents current research on linguistic aspects of the Spanish used in the United States. The authors examine such topics as language maintenance and language shift, language choice, the bilingual?s discourse patterns, varieties of Spanish used in the United States, and oral proficiency testing of bilingual ...

Latin American Spanish (Longman Linguistics Library)

John M. Lipski

Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1994

All serious students of Spanish should have this book!
This is a very good book on the varieties of Spanish spoken in the Americas. In addition to a general description of the factors involved in differentiating the Spanish of different countries, it goes through each country with Spanish as their official language and ...